Thank you Ben for confirming.
My name is Mick O’Donovan and yes, the same Mick O’Donovan mentioned below. For those of you that don’t know me, I am currently working as a Network Engineer with Asiera, the National Research and Education Network provider for Ireland. I have been coming to RIPE meetings since RIPE66 in Dublin and have been involved network engineering since around 2003.
Largely over the time I have attend RIPE meetings, I have been a quiet consumer of the excellent content and a little too shy to even come to the mic to ask a question let alone put myself forward to be a co-chair of a working group. Nowadays though, I feel more inclined and confident to give back and help facilitate the on-going efforts to continue the great work that goes on in the networking community at large. I have done this by volunteering as a PC member of the Irish Network Operator Group (iNOG) since 2016 along with being part of the SIG-NOC (Special Interest Group for Network Operations Centres) Steering Committee since 2023 in the GÉANT community. In each of these roles, I play a very similar part to that of a perspective co-chair and feel I have both the experience and motivation to do a good job for this community.
As someone working still within network engineering in 2026, I have always attended and participated at, and in, the Routing Working Group since 2013 and it is central to my attendance at the in-person meetings. I feel I have something to offer this working group as a co-chair and equally see myself working well with the existing co-chairs into the future - seamlessly. It would be an honour to be a co-chair of the group if I’m honest!
Similarly though, I think in Tom, someone I would consider a good friend at this point, you also have an extremely good choice in a co-chair. Therefore I feel that whoever this working group selects as a new co-chair, it will be in very good hands and will continue to be the best working group at RIPE!
I very much look forward to seeing those of you that will be in attendance in Sofia and I appreciate any support you give me (us).
Regards,
Mick
> On 15 Oct 2026, at 11:27, Ben Cartwright-Cox via routing-wg <routing-wg@ripe.net> wrote:
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> Hello everybody!
>
> As you may know, in Sofia at RIPE 93 we will running an election for one
> of the chairs on the routing-wg.
>
> The current candidates are:
>
> * Tom Strixx
>
> * Mick O'Donovan
>
> Assuming that no other candidate step forward these are the options to
> pick from! If you're still looking to run, please email
> routing-wg-chairs@ripe.net
>
> If the candidates wish, they are more than welcome to introduce
> themselves on the mailing list here, we will be running a similar setup
> as last time in RIPE 89 ( you can find a video of such here
> https://ripe89.ripe.net/archives/video/1528/ )
>
> Cheers
> Ben Cartwright-Cox
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